Agricultural statistics: production potential of plantations of fruit trees (amend. Directive 76/625/ECC)

PURPOSE : to amend Council Directive 76/625/EEC so as to render certain statistical data to be collected on fruit trees optional rather than obligatory. COMMUNITY MEASURE : Directive 1999/87/EC amending Council Directive 76/625/EEC concerning the statistical surveys to be carried out by the Member States in order to determine the production potential of plantations of certain species of fruit trees. CONTENT : The Directive of 1976 requires Member States to provide the Commission every year with annual data on fruit trees and requires the Commission to submit annual reports to the Council in that basis. Those data and the annual reports are not indispensable and therefore, their collection and transmission are made optional.�